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Comment Intel True Random Number Geneator (Score 2, Informative) 80

You probably have a TRNG right on your desktop. Intel has incorporated a true hardware random number generator (TRNG) in Pentium III and Celeron chips. It's based on the quantum-mechanically random Johnson noise across an undriven resistor. Two resistors are used to eliminate any external effects. Here's a good explanation from Cryptography Research, Inc.: ftp://download.intel.com/design/security/rng/CRIwp .pdf Here's Intel's TRNG page: http://www.intel.com/design/security/rng/rnghow.ht m RSA believes in it: ftp://download.intel.com/design/security/rng/RSA_B SAFE.pdf

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